[Buildbot-devel] Prioritizing Builds

[Neil Hemingway]

Hi there,

Would it be useful to anyone else if buildbot were to have a way of
prioritizing builds?

To put this into context, we have one builder per branch rather than a
builder per architecture.  We have only the one slave, so there can be quite
a bit of contention for it.  I would prefer to have release branch builds
take priority over trunk builds, which in turn take priority over builds for
other branches.  What would suit _me_ would be for a Builder to be able to
pass a priority when it creates a BuildRequest and for BuildRequests to be
held in a priority queue rather than a simple list.  I'm just a little
concerned that (a) this might not play nicely with BuildRequests being able
to be merged, and (b) the rest of the world would probably prefer something
other than the Builder to be able to set the priority.

What does the list think?

Regards,
Neil
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